US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Sept. 8 for "Electrical energy store having a lateral cell contact system, and motor vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,842, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Electrical energy store having a lateral cell contact system, and motor vehicle" was invented by Torsten Franke (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical energy store has a plurality of energy storage cells each having a cell housing and two cell terminals, and a cell contact system for connecting the energy storage cells which has a carrier and conductor tracks which are connected to the carrier and have conductor track portions forming contact regions for contacting the cell terminals of the energy storage cells. The cell terminals have termin...